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Problem Booting Up

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shadow82

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Hi there,
This has been annoying me for the past few weeks. Basically every single time I reboot my computer will not boo tup. My monitor goes into power save mode and judging by sound my computer isnt getting anywhere. I also have a small LED on my motherboard which usually flashes codes when the computer is booting and it doesnt even light up. Not until I take out the CMOS battery and replace it does it boot. Sometimes I have to do this a few times. Any suggestions? Thanks
 
Now it seems that when i take out the battery and replace it..it is taking 3-4 times of doing that before it will work again. Kinda makes rebooting my computer a pain. Someone please help.
 
Do you remember what you did to make this start to happen? Install new hardware?
Sometimes when one or more cards are pulling too much current, what you're describing can happen. Sometimes it's a new power supply that fixes the problem, but it could also be that the board can't handle the power requirements.
I had that problem with a AIW 8500 and an Abit KR7A, had to startup-shutdown-startup within 5 seconds or it wouldn't boot. Now my mom uses the KR7A with a Radeon 7500 and she loves it and I have the AIW 8500 in a Epox 8K5A2+. There was nothing wrong with each individual component, but together they didn't work right.
Try giving some system specs, and you might get more responses.
 
Thanks for the responses so far...here are the specs:
Epox 8K3A+
AMD athlon 1600
Gainward geforce 4 4200
hercules gametheater xp
lite on dvd
cendyne burner
crucial (2x) 256 pc 2100 DDR
i have a good powersupply..just dont remember..one of the antec tru power ones i think
plus the usual lan card
modem
win98
etc...

I built it myself and i have been having problems for quite some time now. I was just thinking this morning that it might be a bad battery in the MB. Would that be something that can be causing this? Help is appreciated
thanks
 
Usually a faulty battery will cause the bios to reset to default settings when ever you reboot. If for so weird reason the voltage is spurratic I suppose it might cause something like what you report.

Have you tried the ussual troublshooting steps?
Try each stick of memory, by itself
Try moving the memory to different slots
Pull all the cards except the video and if the problem disappears, put each card in until the problem returns
If the problem dissapears when you pull all of the cards, try putting them in a different order.
Disconnect your extra drives, cd-rom, cd-rw, floppy.
 
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